5 fingers , five years . It's true .
It seems like yesterday but soon slipped half a decade with photographs appearing every day of Funchal, a share that I am very proud .
This journey led me to have people around the world who follow the work that started that day April 29, 2009 without any goal that was not to share my view of the capital city of Madeira.

A tourist couple looks at the picture that shows what will be the space in front.
In reality, a green recreation area in the heart of the city is being built next to the town pier. After completing these works there will also be a new marina and a new dock to dock cruise ships.

The square of the fish in Mercado dos Lavradores is one of the most visited places by tourists visiting Funchal and Madeira island. Partly because of its architecture but also because the species of fish, often unaware, and some of them are part of the traditional Madeiran cuisine.

This advertising is in the Funchal Port and is a support for the thousands of tourists who pass there after disembarking the cruise ships. It is a support already indicating that the newest museum space of Funchal, CR7 Museum, is only about 500 meters away. Remember that this museum is the best world football player, the Madeiran Cristiano Ronaldo.

In Madeira island, this is a Dragoeiro, a Dracaena draco. I find it in Quinta Museu das Cruzes.
They call it like a drago. Is a subtropical tree-like plant in the genus Dracaena, native to the Canary Islands, Cape Verde, Madeira, and locally in western Morocco, and introduced to the Azores.

Painting in Funchal port after the vessel, USS Taylor FFG 50, passed through Madeira island. It's an Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigate, and a ship of the United States Navy named for Commander Jesse J. Taylor (1925–1965), in the paint, a naval aviator who was awarded the Navy Cross posthumously for his heroism in the Vietnam War.

This is a different perspective of the city of Funchal.
The photo was taken from the gardens of the English church, and shows the tower of the church of St. Peter and parts of the Natural History Museum of Funchal, the Frederico de Freitas Museum, and, in the foreground, we can see old buildings that will give way to a hotel and housing quality.

This is a statue made in Sissi honor, which is next to the Pestana Casino Park.
Sissi , or Elisabeth of Austria was born in 24 December 1837 and die in 10 September 1898.
She was the wife of Emperor Franz Joseph I and Empress of Austria Thus and Queen of Hungary . In the June 8, 1867, along with her husband, Sissi was crowned Queen of Hungary following the signing of the Austro-Hungarian compromise.
Sissi suffered from depression because of her unhappy marriage and strict life in the Austrian court.
In 1860, she left Vienna after contracting a lung disease, which was presumably psychosomatic.
Spent the winter on the island of Madeira.
Returned to visit the island of Madeira.
Was known not only for beauty but also for his taste in fashion, diets and exercise, passion for riding and several lovers.
At 1.72 m, Sissi was unusually tall . She was taller than her husband .
The empress also wrote poems.
In September 10, 1898, in Geneva , Switzerland , Sissi was assassinated by an Italian anarchist, Luigi Lucheni.
On the morning of the 10th , after leaving the Beau-Rivage Hotel where she was staying , the path of the vapor to pass through Geneva Lake Geneva, Sissi was approached by Luigi that struck with a fine stylus needle-shaped heart. The empress fel , but still managed to get up apparently without feeling any pain. Without realizing the severity of the blow he had suffered, hurried along to their accompanying order not to miss the boat. Elisabeth of Austria fainted on board, the boat returned to the dock and she was taken to the hotel where he died that afternoon.
His body is buried in the Royal Crypt of the Habsburg Capuchin Church in Vienna, next to her son and her husband.

In Madeira island this tree is called Sumaúma. In english, is Kapok. The tree grows to 60-70 meters. The fiber, like cotton, is light, very buoyant, resilient, resistant to water but it is very flammable.

The museum CR7, from Cristiano Ronaldo, is one of the latest cultural offerings of the island of Madeira.
In this photograph I tried connecting the Madeiran football player playing at Real Madrid, which is exposed in wax at full scale, with the Golden Ball as the player has earned this year, referring to 2013, through reflection.
What you see here is an inverted plan 180 in relation to what is actually in the museum.

With over more than 126 years of history, Fábrica Mel-de-Cana Ribeiro Sêco de V. Melim, Lda is a reference in the production of sugarcane syrup, a product that crosses its identity with Madeira Island's own identity.
This photo have just a few days because the factory is receiving sugar cane to transform in sugar cane honey recognized for its great quality.